MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA066.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Workshop of Fra Filippo Lippi (1406?-69)
Date	15C/3
Reference No	Inv. 1975.1.70B
Size	48.3x12.7
Provenance	unknown
Present Location	New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection
Bibliography	Pope-Hennessy 1987, 176-8

Illustration From	photo - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Other illustrations	Pope-Hennessy 1987, ill 74

Country	Italy

Description:
Panel painted in the middle of the fifteenth century as a group of 18 depicting saints. The panels are now widely dispersed, this one featuring Bernard part of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The original purpose of them is not known, but it is thought that they may have adorned a sacristy cupboard. A nimed Bernard is shown in a white cowl with his hood over his head. His right hand rests on a green book supported on his left forearm. Twisted round his left hand is a leash attached to the collar of a small demon.

Description:

Panel painted in the middle of the fifteenth century as a group of 18 depicting saints. The panels are now widely dispersed, this one featuring Bernard part of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The original purpose of them is not known, but it is thought that they may have adorned a sacristy cupboard. A nimed Bernard is shown in a white cowl with his hood over his head. His right hand rests on a green book supported on his left forearm. Twisted round his left hand is a leash attached to the collar of a small demon.